Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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On vous croit (We believe you) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...

Girls on Wire | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t...

Hysteria | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Burn After Filming: Büyükatalay Explores Colliding Perspectives in Nuanced Drama While it can’t be described as a classic thriller, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s sophomore film Hysteria...

Ari | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Murmur of the Heart: Serraille Conquers Indifference Through Sincerity With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring...

The Best Mother in the World (A melhor mãe do mundo) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Life is Beautiful: Muylaert Takes Aim at Domestic Abuse in Heartfelt Drama In A melhor mãe do mundo (The Best Mother in the World), the...

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Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’

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2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race

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2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race

The International Feature Film category is only beginning to...

Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’

Production has begun on Philippe Lesage's highly anticipated I...
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